Coursework planning : Storyboards

Below is our storyboard in preparation for our final film opening. We have included drawings that we think we will be using frequently during the process of filming and shooting for our film. The drawings included within the storyboard may change throughout the process of the filming procedure, however, these are the main elements.

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Coursework planning: Final locations

FINAL LOCATION/S

Images of final locations/setting to be used:

Why are they going to be used?

For our opening, we plan to shoot very closely to the character's hands and the object's that she handles. So considering this, it is more practically orientated when thinking about our final location. All we need is to use a desk of a reasonable size, so we could fit all of the props and everything on it, but other that, the location could be anywhere. We have decided that we should film at daisy's house, (one of our group members), as it is simply closer to school. She has That way we can film right after school and everyone can get there fine. We all have appropriate 'arty' props that we can bring along as well. 

How does the setting you are planning on using, help construct a mise-en-scene?

All we need is to use a desk of a reasonable size, so we could fit all of the props on it and it'll be big enough to film everything. We want to film close up and only the hand/s of our character so our mise-en-scene (everything you see on the screen) doesn't have much in it. Ours will mostly be constructed by: the character, lighting, and the props. The locations, therefore needs to encompass these conditions to create the mise-en-scene setting. The setting we plan on using has various lighting options, from the ceiling light and coloured fairy lights, a lamp light or a iphone light. The actor in the film will be daisy and so, beforehand, we plan to paint parts of her hand so that on screen, it looks messy and the audience may guess that the rest of the room is too. This is the same as the props, because they will be strewn across the desk so this can also help add to the mise-en-scene.

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Coursework : Final Planning - final script

Final Script

( camera focuses on paper) 

  (Hands using scalpel) 

 Title 1 : sombre productions 

  (Burnt photo of mans torso) 

(Scratching collage) 

  (Overlay image of hands using pens to cross out words in a book)

(Hands grabbing paper)

(darker collage image) 

  (photo of two people in St. Andrews asylum)

(Wet paint on lined paper)

(photo of mans torso with melted wax)

(Back of actresses head with glasses)

(Macro shot of a page in the book)

Title 2 : A film by..  Lily Ray  Megan Lansdell  Daisy Gilbert  Lily Mitchell

 (Image of person in St. Andrews asylum)

(Turn page with wet paint)

(Focus on paper)

(Scalpel)

(Drawing)

(Mascara smudged on photo of mans torso)

Title 3 : Louise Campling

  (Scalpel on collage)

(Fire burning piece of paper)

(Zoomed in on page of book)

(Fairy lights in collage)

(Image of boy at st Andrews Asylum)

Title 4 : Samuel Hewitson

  (Image of girl and St. Andrews asylum) 

(Writing)

(Painting on lined paper)

(Over lay writing)

(Stitches on image of mans torso)

(Writing with marker)

(Crossing words out in book)

(Collage of images of mans torso)

(Paint finger print)

Title 5 : Thomas Bishop 

  (Zoomed writing)

(Scrunching hands leave page)

(Painting a face on lined paper)

(Tearing up paper)

(Ripping scrapbook page)

Final Title : MERZ

Audience Research Feedback

Planning : Audience Research Video

Audience Research video

what do you expect to see in the opening 2 mins of a film in horror/suspense genre?

Can you think of any specific film openings from this genre you have remember for good or bad reasons?

How much of a storyline do you expect to be given away in a 2 minute film opening?

How many characters and locations do you think is necessary for the opening 2 minutes of a film opening?

In your opinion the best opening two minutes of films are the ones that......?

What do you think of my idea at the moment?

Coursework : Planning - casting

Coursework Planning - Casting

Images of the people you will be auditioning for your character(s)?

For our piece of coursework we won't be using a character as such in the opening scenes, we won't have the faces of our character featuring, we will only have our characters hands in our opening. This is because our idea is to use the hands of the character in a way that it is capturing what they are doing, pulling apart pictures, cutting things, painting etc. So for this we had a look at peoples hands to see who would fit our character best.

Who are they?

The person that we will be using for this will most likely be from our group as it is easier than finding someone to use purely for that, also it makes everyone in the group feel a lot more comfortable and easier to ask them to perform certain actions as we know them. However we could alternatively use a parent of one of ours where we are filming as this would also be easier.

Why do you believe they would be good for the role?

Any one in the group would be suitable for this role, as it doesn't require any dramatic performance, but instead just being willing to use their hands. They don't need to perform any facial expressions or anything of a dramatic nature, therefore it means that they don't really need any experience of too be particularly good at acting for this.

Why have you given the role(s) to this/these people?

It will be given to someone in our group or a parent of a group member as it is most convenient for the process of filming, it is a simple role and doesn't require any great deal of acting and therefore it is the most logical thing to use one of ourselves for the role.

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Coursework Planning 2 : Characters and casting

FINAL CHARCTER PROFILE: 

Gender - Female

Age - Between 15 to 20 years old.

History - Bullied and abused as a child, mostly because she was interested in things that the other children weren't. Moreover, she was abused by her parents, and in turn had the most effect on her and her personality.

Profession - An artist. My group and I chose an art student for the profession of our character as it draws them away from any social environment. Nowadays, it can be construed that artists are expressive, creatively unusual, and wayward (traits that are perfect for our character).

Likes - Considering our character is an artist we thought she should like being in her workshop/studio making art, and also have the idea that that's the only thing she likes doing. Our character, also, likes to be alone and away from the society. This is due to the fact she has no social skills as she was bullied when a child.

Dislikes - A dislike of our main character is people, considering our characters upbringing, we thought it would be fitting if she liked being alone because doesn't like people. Another dislike of our character would be seeing happy families.

Personality Traits - The personality traits for our character are: strange, quiet, wayward and creepy.

CAST:

Name : Daisy Gilbert

Age : 16

Why did we cast this actor?
We cast Daisy because she is the perfect age for our character. She is an art student so she has arty hands, covered in paint and knows what she is doing, we also chose her out of convenience as she lives local and is easy to get to, since she is in our group she knows exactly what we are looking for from our actors.

COSTUMES:

I think this tells us the age of the character as it is what a typical teenager would wear, it also tells us perhaps she is not very comfortable in her body if she is wearing baggy clothes.

Finding a costume:
We will find our clothes either from what Daisy already owns or shop in popular fashion shops such as H&M or Zara. Since our character only has her hands showing we decided that the costume she will wear will have long sleeves so we have some sort of idea of what she is wearing. We decided that art students often don't dress very smartly because it is very expensive to replace clothing if you continuously ruin your clothes with paint and other art supplies. We will dress our actress based on what students wear at our school, we chose black trousers, a white blouse and a green flowy jumper.

Posted 20 hours ago by Lily Ray